A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN OUR BACKYARD? PLEASE AND THANKS! (New York Times) A New York Times article describes the receptivity to power plants in Japan by local communities today, after many of the same communities had displayed the NIMBY pattern of opposition when such developments started 40 years ago. What is different today? For [...]
Inside the cockpitof the spy place at Trapani (Photo: JANE MINGAY/UK Telegraph) THE STUFF OF WHICH NEW MEMORIES OF WAR ARE MADE. (UK Telegraph) Though the UK does not celebrate Memorial Day, the Sunday Telegraph gets into the spirit of the weekend by putting a reporter aboard an RAF spy plane based in Trapani, Sicily [...]
by Cynthia McKinney (from Libya) How many times must a parent bury a child? Well, in the case of Muammar Qaddafi it’s not only twice: once for his daughter, murdered by the United States bombing on his home in 1986, and again on 30 April 2011 when his youngest son, Saif al Arab, was killed, [...]
FLORIDA TOWN TURNS INTO TEA PARTY’S TOTALITARIAN UTOPIA FOR GOV. RICK SCOTT’S BUDGET SIGNING “EVENT.” Political dissidents hauled away by the police. Signs critical of their leader taken down with force by party organizers. Groups of private school kids directed to chant political slogans. Is this some sort of third-world dictatorship or totalitarian regime? No, [...]
HIGH FIVES FOR LIBYAN OPERATION. As Barack Obama and David Cameron, heads of state of U.S. and U.K., meet in London, they agree on expansion of the UN bombing operation to achieve “regime change” in Libya. In a telling photograph, shown above, they indulge in a celebratory gesture like football fans might enact after their [...]
Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney writes from Libya… ……………………. While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response [...]
IF DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY, ISRAEL MAY BECOME THE LAST REMAINING SUPERPOWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST. (Asia Times) This is the perspective of an Asia Times writer called “Spengler,” who notes the much higher rates of fertility among the Jewish as opposed to the Arab people of the region. Of course this emergence of Israel as [...]
Despite the recent military operation that killed Osama bin Laden, taking out the leader of al Qaeda and the man at the heart of America’s “war on terror,” Congress and the Obama administration appear ready to agree on a four-year extension of most provisions of the controversial Patriot Act. Bipartisan cooperation is rare in Washington [...]
TIME TO HIT THE BACK PEDAL: DEMOGRAPHIC REALITIES WILL HAVE TO BE RECOGNIZED IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. (Antiwar.com) While mainstream media continue to report that President Obama will not “back down” on his speech Thursday defining the pre-1967 boundaries of Israel as the “starting point” of negotiations, he appears before an Israel-friendly crowd at [...]
OBAMA MAKES ANOTHER “BIG SPEECH” AND LIBERATION WRITERS FIND IT FULL OF HYPOCRITICAL STATEMENTS OF U.S. GOOD INTENTIONS BELIED BY U.S. POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. (Liberation) The speech, say these writers, is full of happy feet statements about U.S. devotion to “democracy” in the Middle East and Africa, as it pursues policy of supporting [...]
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